By Timour Azhari and Maayan Lubell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Lebanon and Israel have reached a historic agreement demarcarting a disputed maritime border between them, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday. While limited in scope, a deal …
Security, red banners and COVID curbs: Beijing readies for 20th Congress
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing has stepped up security and COVID curbs and decorated the capital Beijing with red political banners as it gears up for a Communist Party congress where President Xi Jinping is poised to become China’s mo…
U.N. publicly rejects Russia’s call for secret vote on Ukraine
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly voted on Monday to reject Russia’s call for the 193-member body to hold a secret ballot later this week on whether to condemn Moscow’s move to annex four partially occupied region…
Biden vows air defense systems for Ukraine after missile attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskiy on Monday that the United States will provide Ukraine with advanced air systems after a devastating missile barrage from Russia. Biden spoke by phone with Z…
U.S. Congress could be in for bruising debt-ceiling fight after midterms
By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If Republicans win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections, they expect to use a powerful and potentially dangerous tool as leverage in their dealings with De…
U.S. banks cut donations to federal candidates, up Democrats’ share ahead of mid-terms
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. banks are giving far less to federal candidates this election cycle and increasing the proportion they are handing to Democrats as they rethink their political giving, according to a Reuters analysis of dat…
Thai PM orders tighter gun control, drugs crackdown after mass killing
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday ordered law enforcement agencies to tighten gun ownership rules and crack down on drug use following a mass killing by an ex-policeman at a daycare centre that left has the nation in s…
Banking crisis breakthroughs win Nobel economics prize for Bernanke, Diamond, Dybvig
By Simon Johnson and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A trio of U.S. economists including former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke won this year’s Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for laying the foundation of how world powers now tackle global cris…
Escalation of violence in Ukraine disrupts aid work
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations and other aid organisations in Ukraine said on Monday that Russia firing missiles at cities across the country had disrupted their humanitarian work on the ground. Russia hit sites across Ukraine, stri…
Storm Julia kills 25 in Central America as it churns toward Mexico
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -The death toll from storm Julia rose to at least 25 on Monday, officials said, with most victims in El Salvador and Guatemala, as the weakening storm dumped heavy rain on a swath of Central America and souther…